O3C Games

Let’s make it easy for both you and us. What’s in the episode you ask? Well, I’m going to tell you, RIGHT BLOODY NOW.

This week we will present thoughts on the following games, in this EXACT order. No foolin’. No messin’. No tricks.

METROID PRIME 2

FORZA HORIZON 4

DEAD SPACE REMAKE

EXECUTIVE GOLF DX

QUESTY CHESS

How ‘bout that then?

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Reach out to us individually:
Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges

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What have we been playing this week?

RPGs!

Rice Pudding Games

How’s ol’ Jonathan Dunn getting on with his Metroid Prime Trilogy replay? Does the recent Dead Space remake hold up to the original? Is Chris still playing Fish ‘n Feathers on the Playdate? Does the ‘Valve Playable’ Forza Horizon 4 really work that well on Steam Deck? And what connects Earth Defense Force to ‘bullet heaven’ games like Vampire Survivors?

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Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe, Thomas Duncan, Dominic Kemp, William Worthington and the gang at Chat of the Wild!

Reach out to us individually:
Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges

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After being quietly tucked into our pockets over Christmas, the Playdate makes its big return with, dare I say it, its strongest weekly pairing yet?

How does Hyper Meteor pay homage to and iterate on the arcade classic Asteroids? Why is Zipper better than Ghosts of Tsushima? What sideloaded treats has Chris been playing this week in between the season’s meatier entries?

PLUS, all the usual guff you’ve come to expect about the big AAA games Jonathan managed to scythe through in a number of days, and the rubbish Chris has focussed on that, quite literally, no one else in the world is preoccupied with.

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Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe, Thomas Duncan, Dominic Kemp, William Worthington and the gang at Chat of the Wild!

Reach out to us individually:
Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges

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HEY-OH!

We’re back, and at least partially rested from our festive bonanza to talk, to you dear listeners, about videogames.

What have we spent the last month playing? And how did we get on with our Christmas homework to play Silver and James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod?

Including thoughts on:

SONIC FRONTIERS
BABYLON’S FALL
THUMPER
POKÉMON PICROSS
FAERIE SOLITAIRE
VAMPIRE SURVIVORS
BROTATO
(oh, and SILVER and JAMES POND 2 as well)

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Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe, Thomas Duncan, Dominic Kemp, William Worthington and the gang at Chat of the Wild!

Reach out to us individually:
Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges

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Arcade Paradise is a Game of the Year.

Elden Ring is a Game of the Year.

Bloom is a Game of the Year.

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Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges

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As the sun breaks to a New Year, join Chris and Jonathan as they reminisce on the 365 days colloquially known as Twenty Twenty Two.

What were the standout games we played in 2022? The best releases of 2022? The games we never got round to because we were stuck playing Everybody’s Golf and Monster Hunter respectively? And the games we’re looking forward to in 2023?

2022 may be DEAD, but videogames remain ALIVE AND KICKING.

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Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe, Thomas Duncan, Dominic Kemp and the gang at Chat of the Wild!

Reach out to us individually:
Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges

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And so this is Christmas,

And what have you done?

(Other than listen to 50-odd episodes of the O3C Games podcast of course!)

Bezzies Chris and Jonathan get together for a festive celebration, sharing gifts and glad tidings as they unwrap four presents each that have been chosen to fit in with the schema ‘something you want, something you need, something to wear, something to read’.

How far have the boys bent the definitions of each category for their videogame themed gifts?

Merry Christmas to you and yours from us at O3C Games. We love you!

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Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe, Thomas Duncan, Dominic Kemp and the gang at Chat of the Wild!

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Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges

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Sail the Sunless Sea,
(actually Unterzee),
Here where it’s darker, and light is much starker,
Failure guaranteed!

Then under the sea,
Under the sea,
Moments of quiet, then gatekeeping giants,
An eco-message ‘bout trees!

(Chris and Jonathan report back on saltwater twofer Sunless Sea and The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human)

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Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe, Thomas Duncan, Dominic Kemp and the gang at Chat of the Wild!

Reach out to us individually:
Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges

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You know what? I’ve written about 200 of these blurbs now, and I’m reasonably confident no one reads them.

Sometimes I put in little stories and jokes about the games we’ve played like this: Jonathan and Chris do their best to get to grips with the 85th instalment in the venerated Demon Quest franchise, and lose their topsy turvy minds and collective motor faculties as they get to grips with OMAZE, a game quite literally about mazes.. made from ‘O’s.

Sometimes I’m a little more direct: In addition to a Playdate bounty, this week our intrepid podcasters have played Pokemon! Rez Infinite! Jumping Joe! Jumanji! And a few other cranked goods.

But whichever way the copy fairy takes me, I always put the work in, to make sure those who stumble upon this show have a decent idea of what to expect in the episode.

If you’ve read this far, cheers! Come give me a wave on Twitter. You know the handle by now. And if this last line remains, forever truncated in obscurity by the podcast feeds of the world, who cares, eh?

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Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe, Thomas Duncan, Dominic Kemp and the gang at Chat of the Wild!

Reach out to us individually:
Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges

Support us either via Patreon or with a one off donation here.

Listen to Chris and Jonathan tackle the following old games:

Jurassic Park, Nintendo Entertainment System, 1993

Jurassic Park: The Lost World Special Edition, Sony Playstation, 1998

Cave Noire, Nintendo Gameboy, 1991 (Fan Translation by Aeon Genesis, 2012)

Good? Bad? Ugly?

Also!

Chris completes Arcade Paradise, listens to dance music, and is rewarded for a speculative purchase made nearly a decade ago. Jonathan rags on Pokémon Flippert and Pokémon Fandango for a long, long time.

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Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe, Thomas Duncan, Dominic Kemp and the gang at Chat of the Wild!

Reach out to us individually:
Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges

Support us either via Patreon or with a one off donation here.